Rules

There are a few simple rules to participate in the contest:

Photos must be taken and uploaded by you

Photos must be uploaded in September 2014. It doesn’t matter when you took the photo, only that you upload it during the contest. The deadline for the final upload is Monday, October 1, 2014, 12:01 a.m Hawaiian Standard Time, which is equal to 6:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Photos must be freely licensed. CC-BY-SA will be selected automatically for you if you use the WLM uploader. It is the standard license on Wikimedia Commons and is highly preferred. You may also choose to dedicate your photos to the public domain with a CC0 license.

The subject of the photo must be a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places (an NRHP reference number will be automatically included with the upload).

Please make sure that you are not uploading somebody else’s photos, since you will be giving anybody the right to use these photos freely. Similarly, you can’t upload anybody else’s intellectual property. For example, if a copyrighted modern sculpture is near the site, please do not photograph that as part of the site. If you leave recognizable people out of the photos, you will not have to worry about securing a written release for their picture.

Wiki Loves Monuments USA has ended.

We're excited to introduce Wikipedia Summer of Monuments, which replaced Wiki Loves Monuments in 2014. It's a similar campaign to improve coverage of U.S. historic sites on Wikipedia, focused on the Southern United States where historic places are underrepresented on Wikipedia.